This festschrift celebrates the 60th birthday of Markku Kivinen, director of the Aleksanteri Institute. In Part I, Social Theory, Uskali Mäki addresses the potential of scientific realism, Osmo Kivinen...
Can a Finnish judicial document be served to an addressee who resides in Russia? How can a foreign court hear a Russian witness? And does judicial cooperation with Russia differ from cooperation with other...
Miten sukupuoli, seksuaalisuus ja suomalaisuus punoutuvat toisiinsa?
Nämä kysymykset yhdistävät tutkijoita, jotka liikkuvat kenttätöissä Venäjän kylissä ja kaupungeissa, pienyhteisöjen, liikkeiden ja...
The book examines homeowners' associations as a part of the large-scale housing management reform that has transferred management and maintenance of private housing from the state to the private sector...
The radical Russian philosopher, politician, utopian novelist and social scientist Aleksandr Bogdanov (1873—1928) is a controversial figure: for some, the “rival of Lenin” and founder of an alternative...
This collection of essays in honour of Professor Natalia Baschmakoff presents seventeen scholarly contributions to the study of Russian cultural history, literature, arts and society.
Memories and scholarly exploration on memory have become a significant part of contemporary cultural studies. Breaks in the cultural and political orders in Russian and German societies had a strong impact...
"Highly readable, coherently structured, and full of interesting insights, Russia’s Northern Region on the Edge will help geographers and other social scientists better sort out, as noted in the book’s...
"Highly readable, coherently structured, and full of interesting insights, Russia's Northern Region on the Edge will help geographers and other social scientists better sort out, as noted in the book's...
When we speak about European values we often actually refer to political interests. In political debate European values and identity are constantly used to support several different and even contradictory...
Contributors: Eine Alt, Natalia Baschmakoff, Aleksandr Belousov, Elena Dushechkina,
Paul Fryer, Tuulikki Kurki, Simo Leisti, Mari Raami, Irina Razumova,
Mari Ristolainen, Olga Zmeeva. The present...
In the past two decades Russia has undergone remarkable economic, political and cultural changes. We may presume that these changes have had a strong influence on the opinions of Russians themselves as...
Over the period of last fifteen years, Russia has become a market economy. Sharing many features with other middle-income resource-based economies, it is marked both by the Soviet bequest and its position...
“ Both the historical conditions and future prospects of Russian state and corporate power through oil and gas production, transportation, and sales are explored with relational, comparative and multi-disciplinary...
As the European Union struggles to agree a common line and to establish mutual understanding in its dealings with Russia, the story about how bilateral relations work between Russia and two European countries...
Russian forest peripheries have become highly contested environments in the globalising world. Foreign and domestic companies have been investing in production and extending their round-wood procurement...
For many decades, communist ideology concealed the idea of Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian intellectuals, inheritors of the traditions of the Russian intelligentsia, welcomed the...
The influence of religion has increased in Russian society since the collapse of communism. All indicators of religiosity show an upward trend. This is the case especially among the younger generation....
This edition brings together the proceedings of the 4 th Aleksanteri Conference held in November 2004: ”DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA AND THE CIS - CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES AND VISIONS”
This volume crystallises interconnectedness between history, memory and female authorship.Based on a discussion of censorship, Part I explores the figure of "the revolutionary woman" as manifestation of...
"This book offers a new, complementary perspective to the study of inter-state relations in the Eastern bloc. By showing that there were chances to pursue national interest even against the common objectives...
Multicultural insights in men's studies
This volume responds to a growing field of critical research in men and masculinities in the post-socialist and post-Soviet countries.
The restructuring of the Pechenga District is analysed in this study through interviews with the participants - workers, public sector and managers - of the process. Moreover, the Russian North’s restructuring...
For many people in Russia today, everyday life appears to be a series of traps. According to C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination, this sense of being trapped arises from seemingly impersonal...
Articles by Mikhail Gorbachev, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Reino Paasilinna, Jukka Pietilä inen, Andrei Raskin, Andrei Richter, Elena Vartanova, Ivan Zassoursky and Yassen Zassoursky.
For almost a century the ‘Baltic question’ has been an integral issue of both Northern European and global international relations. The standing of three small nations has tested the relationships between...
During the past decade, emergence of ‘regionalism’ has been lively debated - some see it as an opportunity for re-strengthening Russia, whilst for others it merely appears as a source of state disintegration...
The Russian legal system has been exposed to two radical changes during the 20th century. First, the Bolshevik revolution replaced the old imperial law with a socialist regime, then after the collapse...
The religious situation in Russia drastically changed after the collapse of communism. The Soviet state aimed to overcome religion and replace it with a scientific atheistic world-view. A massive system...
This provocative and timely contribution to the debate on current Russian environmental policy and politics provides a contextualized analysis of the Russian green movement within a society characterized...
The book offers a new approach to Western firms' business activities in Eastern Europe. It focuses on market entry and business development processes of Nordic firms in Eastern Europe. The new business...
Viestinnän opas venäjän kieltä käyttäville.- Osaan suomea ja venäjää, osaankohan myös kääntää ja tulkata? - Miksi jotkut suomennokset kuulostavat koukeroisilta tai kankeilta, venäjännökset taas töykeiltä...